the truth ???

The perfect slow coach accessory.

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Ian K said..

Mark _australia said..

So I do hope everyone in this thread does do the speed limit, right...?

You mean "drives within the speed limit" don't you? There are roads down in the SW where the speed limit is 110kph, but sensible drivers slow down for the surrounding conditions, even in perfect weather. In NSW similar windy roads are posted at 90kph. And they wonder why the road toll in the SW is a bit high.

Our local roads are 80 or 100kms but with feral deer ,roos, broken edges and potholes you'd be stupid to do the limit especially at night.
If some of these young P platers could see the damage a 180kg Stag does when it T bones your Ute the might pull their heads in.
One foggy am I drove past a Ute parked on the sloping verge with a massive dent in the side. 100m away was a bull sized stag smashed in the middle of the road.
The tow truck driver said he attends 5 deer strikes a week.

This is fun discussion. There's lots of drugos on the roads now days. It takes hardly anything to flick the switch. The media is full of stories of victims reacting to road ragers and ending up badly injured. What do you value most ?. Ideology or health ?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-16/matthew-hollitt-sentenced-over-dangerous-driving/105295128

Back to the start anyway .. He has a point. the govt rules are stupid and in trying to reduce emissions we end up with a mess that in some ways achieves the opposite. how can giant yank tanks be exempt for a start? how is the CO2 target available to be bought n sold so some vehicles can be non compliant? If we are saving the world let's be serious

The *government does make/break/change/bend/borrow stupid rules, fact. But things are changing so fast, humans cannot imagine how the future is going to look so best focus on now i think.

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Sandee


Better than that would be a small alteration to your rear windshield washer, to make it squirt behind, instead of onto the rear of your own car. Someone I know has repeatedly threatened to do this, using cat piss to spray them. I reckon it'd be effective (ever had a cat pee on your windscreen & into the vents?), but good luck getting a cat to provide the necessary ammunition. And you'd lose the use of your rear windshield washer.

How do you get the cat to piss into the wiper bottle ?

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Imax1 said..

Sandee


Better than that would be a small alteration to your rear windshield washer, to make it squirt behind, instead of onto the rear of your own car. Someone I know has repeatedly threatened to do this, using cat piss to spray them. I reckon it'd be effective (ever had a cat pee on your windscreen & into the vents?), but good luck getting a cat to provide the necessary ammunition. And you'd lose the use of your rear windshield washer.

How do you get the cat to piss into the wiper bottle ?

You put the whole cat in. The rest just happens naturally.

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Imax1 said..

Sandee


Better than that would be a small alteration to your rear windshield washer, to make it squirt behind, instead of onto the rear of your own car. Someone I know has repeatedly threatened to do this, using cat piss to spray them. I reckon it'd be effective (ever had a cat pee on your windscreen & into the vents?), but good luck getting a cat to provide the necessary ammunition. And you'd lose the use of your rear windshield washer.

How do you get the cat to piss into the wiper bottle ?

EMU larger comes in a can or bottle that's easy to pour! Cats p!ss ready to go.

That link that I posted was given to my wife and I from a car dealership.
My wife is looking for a new car!!!
What she has been looking at only comes in a hybrid or an EV.
I did not expect that this post would have gone the way it has.
No MM, no ram.
Laurie could you please delete this before someone else gets offended.

See you all on the water one day in the near future.

I love my EV!!!!
We've had it 2 years and it's only been a joy.
There's a lot of very false stuff promulgated by the fossil fuel industry as that video shows.
Not sure what it's like where you are, but lack of public charging stations can be an issue if you can't charge at home or want to do unplanned long trips.
But people are doing long trips, you just need to know where the charging stations are.
Newer cars can charge much faster than old ones, a toilet break and a coffee is all you need.
If you have a solar installation, it's much more economical to charge the car on excess solar rather than get paid peanuts for it from the grid.

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Mark _australia said..

Anyywayyyyy I reckon the vid has some merit. If indeed the numbers do work like he says....

Yes it does highlight the loopholes. (deliberately added to appease dual cab ute buyters) . Hopefully the loopholes close up as the system ramps up. But the video made a big omission. It didn't mention that the big driver of the system overseas is urban air quality. CO2 is a proxy for the nasties that are harder to keep tabs on. Maybe urban air pollution is not all that much of an issue in OZ. Unless you live in Freo.

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decrepit said..
I love my EV!!!!
We've had it 2 years and it's only been a joy.
There's a lot of very false stuff promulgated by the fossil fuel industry as that video shows.
Not sure what it's like where you are, but lack of public charging stations can be an issue if you can't charge at home or want to do unplanned long trips.
But people are doing long trips, you just need to know where the charging stations are.
Newer cars can charge much faster than old ones, a toilet break and a coffee is all you need.
If you have a solar installation, it's much more economical to charge the car on excess solar rather than get paid peanuts for it from the grid.

I'd love an EV Van but the ones that are here are too small and not enough range. Just have to keep waiting.

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kato said..

decrepit said..
I love my EV!!!!
We've had it 2 years and it's only been a joy.
There's a lot of very false stuff promulgated by the fossil fuel industry as that video shows.
Not sure what it's like where you are, but lack of public charging stations can be an issue if you can't charge at home or want to do unplanned long trips.
But people are doing long trips, you just need to know where the charging stations are.
Newer cars can charge much faster than old ones, a toilet break and a coffee is all you need.
If you have a solar installation, it's much more economical to charge the car on excess solar rather than get paid peanuts for it from the grid.

I'd love an EV Van but the ones that are here are too small and not enough range. Just have to keep waiting.

I wondered about that. I'd have thought that given the huge flat floor pan we would see tradie vans with double the range of everything else, and a fktonne of charger outlets in the back for tools and a 240V outlet

the amount of battery you could fit..

Googled it and I see 100,000 reasons why not
strewth

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Mark _australia said..
I wonder when I can afford one? I hope the Govt will give them to poor people to save the planet.

Or realise that a new phone every year, 1/4acre flatscreens and houses with black roofs no eaves and no greenery are probably stuffing the planet way faster.

Anyywayyyyy I reckon the vid has some merit. If indeed the numbers do work like he says..e

How much do you spend on a car? We upgraded EVs and sold the old one for about $11k which is not expensive for an immaculate Nissan of its age (ten years, I think).

The typical Australian car does 12,100 km per year according to budget.direct. The typical Australian ICE car produces about 4 tons of Co2 per year according to RAC WA. Engineers Australia says that over its lifetime and including car and battery construction emission, an EV SUV creates 23% as much Co2 as an ICE SUV so let's say 1 ton of Co2 per year, ignoring the fact that EV batteries have a much more useful afterlife than ICE cars. Those stats also ignore all the EV users who charge their car normally from their home solar.

Tim Berners-Lee claims that using an i-phone through its entire lifetime, including building it, has the same Co2 emissions as 9 gallons of petrol ie 80kg of Co2. See the piece on Reboxed.com. So an i-phone does NOT create anything like as much Co2 as a car.

Statistica says that a TV uses 595kg of Co2 during its life, so let's say 50kg/year. So it's BS to even come close to comparing a TV to an ICE car.

Thesba.com.au says the typical Aussie house produces 5 tonnes of Co2 per year. CSIRO says that a quick bit of work on insulation and air gaps etc can reduce that by about 1.6 tonnes. Fitting solar reduces it by 2 tonnes.

So phones and TVs do NOT "trash the planet way faster" than running an ICE unless you reckon that 5000kg is the same as 130kg. A badly designed house emits about 25% more Co2 than an ICE but that's not really "way faster" than driving an ICE car.

So someone with a properly insulated house with solar and an EV may see those two big-ticket items produce about 2 tonnes of Co2 per year, including making the car, or less if they normally charge from their home solar. Someone with a normal house and an EV will emit about 6 tonnes, including making the car. Someone who has a normal house and an ICE will emit about 10 tonnes including making the car. Phones and TVs are basically irrelevant but the car you drive is not.